Astro: The Steller Sea Lion - Softcover

Harvey, Jeanne Walker

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1607180871 ISBN 13: 9781607180876

Verlag: Sylvan Dell Publishing, 2010

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Book by Jeanne Walker Harvey

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Astro is a stellar Steller sea lion! Only a few days old when found orphaned, he is cared for and raised at The Marine Mammal Center in Sausalito, California. When big enough to be released to the wild where he needs to be, he has other plans! Just like a lost dog finding his way home, Astro keeps swimming back towards the Center, crossing miles of open ocean water to do so. After several attempts, people realize that Astro is too accustomed to humans and will just keep coming back. Based on real events, readers follow Astro through some of the travels that have taken him across the U.S. to his current home at the Mystic Aquarium in Connecticut. The For Creative Minds educational section includes: Steller Sea Lions, Steller Sea Lions Threatened and Endangered, Where in the World? (A Map Activity), Steller Sea Lion Life Cycle, Sea Lion or Seal? (What’s the Same? What’s Different?). Additional Teaching Activities and Interactive Quizzes are available for free on the Sylvan Dell Publishing website.

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Jeanne Walker Harvey has been a longtime member of SCBWI with publications in Writer's Digest, Cricket Magazine, Nation’s Business, SCBWI's ACORN, Creativity Connection, Parent's Expecting and Teachers of Vision. Currently, she teaches Language Arts and a Writing Workshop at her local public middle school. She has a degree in English literature and psychology from Stanford University. For many years, she volunteered as a school docent for the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Marin Literacy Program. Growing up in Orange County, California, she was always fascinated by the ocean and marine mammals. She lives in Marin County, California, with her husband and two teenage sons and a black lab who sits at her feet when she writes. Award-winning children’s book illustrator Shennen Bersani has two million copies of her books cherished and read by families throughout the world. She has freelance illustrated since 1989. She works primarily with colored pencils, sometimes using a mixed-media technique of colored pencils, crayons, and paint. Her art delivers a unique blend of realism, heartfelt emotion, and life lessons for children of all ages. Ms. Bersani creates many children's books and art with a sea life focus. Her long-time love of sea lions influenced this emotional and realistic portrayal of a sea lion hero, Astro the Steller Sea Lion. She has illustrated several children’s picture books, taught colored pencil classes and workshops, judged art exhibits, and painted backdrops for community theatre. Her art also appears in many magazines, newspapers, and publications. Shennen lives with her family near Boston, Massachusetts.

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• Verlag: Sylvan Dell Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1607180871
• ISBN 13: 9781607180876
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 32
• Zeichner: Bersani Shennen